High-tech architecture turns structure and services inside out, exposing the building's mechanical systems as its primary visual language. The catalogue holds 3 High-tech buildings — most prominently the Centre Pompidou in Paris, where Piano and Rogers placed ducts, escalators, and structural bracing on the exterior.
The style celebrates engineering and technology as aesthetic values. Coloured ducts, exposed steel trusses, and visible mechanical systems replace the concealment and refinement of traditional architecture. Berlin's ICC (Internationales Congress Centrum) extends the vocabulary into a massive aluminium-clad megastructure.
